Normal Draft is still unplayable. Wasn't this fixed?

Yenn·Feb 2, 2016·1 votes·291 views

20+ minute queues on my main, 20+ minute queues on my smurf. This isn't playable. Wasn't this supposed to be fixed?

3 Comments

Mysticman89Feb 2, 20161 votes

Smurf queue times are scary since they get rather high mmrs relative to their level, which makes for long queue times, which makes for...questionable matches. I'm pretty sure I'm not a diamond level player but my level 27 has had a 30 minute wait to have a match with diamonds. I'm somewhat forgiving of that though, since smurfs are hard to match fairly.

Mains taking 20+ minute though seems sketchy. I take it you're diamond and I gather they did tweak it recently so that diamonds wouldn't get matched with masters/pros normally (as I guess this was an issue for a time), but you'd think there'd be more diamonds around to play with.

HorusEyeFeb 2, 20161 votes

Why even bother making a smurf for? Just to bully new players?

Mysticman89Feb 2, 20161 votes

The 'good' reason for them is when they're fresh and still have a new player MMR, you can queue with legitimate new players and show them the ropes without your main's MMR causing the matchmaking to put them in a game where they will be utterly useless (e.g. playing against level 30 players who know what they're doing relatively speaking).

Solo smurfing feels dirty, but mmr shoots up awfully quick in my experience so you quickly just end up in all smurf games.

It can also be fun for "champion X only" accounts, where if you suddenly find yourself forced to ADC on your tahm kench only account you don't have to worry so much as theres a disconnect from your mains MMR (plus you might sufficiently outskill your opponents that ADC kench works).